The Merchant of Venice
Specifically the movie with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. I knew the whole pound-of-flesh bit was coming, and it didn't worry me particularly. I watch a lot of Asian horror movies, so I've sort of built up a tolerance to creepy, and I knew that Shylock is stopped before he actually cuts out a pound of Antonio's flesh. I should be fine, right?

First part of scene: the court's pleas for mercy are ignored. Antonio is sentenced to have a pound of flesh forcibly excised from his body. First thing I notice is Shylock's knife. It's HUGE. It's like a machete, and he spends a lot of the scene violently sharpening it while leering at Antonio. Ew, creepy, but nothing I can't handle.

Then they strap Antonio down. It looks like it hurts. (And obvious Christian imagery is obvious.) Okay, I can deal with this.

and then Shylock advances on the clearly terrified Antonio, still sharpening that machete and makes like he's going to slice into his chest.

Okay, this is the part where the court stops him....no? They're going to play it up to the last second for dramatic purposes? Okay.

...Surely they must stop him now?

...wait a sec, aren't they supposed to stop him?

...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEBODY STOP HIM!

They do stop him. When the knife is a hair away from Antonio's chest. I swear to god, I thought Shylock was going to go through with it.

Antonio lives, but The Wombat spends the rest of the movie sitting in a puddle of rapidly cooling sweat. And then has horrible nightmares the following night.

Possibly I shouldn't have watched Se7en before I watched Merchant of Venice.
(TheWonderfulWombat It came to me in a dream., Sat 9 Apr 2011, 4:30, Reply)